Its official: Florida has passed the one million mark in issuing concealed carry gun permits  the most of any other state.

In mid-December, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam released a statement announcing the upcoming milestone and sharing information about the Florida Concealed Weapon and Firearm License Program.

In 1987, Florida issued its first statewide concealed weapon license after the Florida Legislature established standardized and uniform requirements for the issuance of a concealed weapon license, said Commissoner Putnam. Twenty-five years later,...

"You'd think that Feinstein et al would get the message. People don't want their guns taken away."

Every semi-automatic rifle, every semi-automatic handgun, every box of ammo bought for either, and every new membership to the NRA is a vote sending that same message. There is more than one way to vote. Some are more peaceful than others.

I did a bit of research for a master’s degree project this past summer-came up with about 7.6 million permits (from various sources, exlcuding states that had no figures to report or had non-permitted carry provisions).

So, with a US population of of ~310 million, that comes out to about 2452 permits per 100k population.

(7.6 million permits divided by 310 million US population times 100 thousand)= 2451.6

A few potentailly armed citizens to say the least, of course discounting those who have can but are not carrying, and not accounting for states with no permit required (A few well armed states to say the least).

As of todays MO DOR monthly report for Dec 2012, there are 160, 184 permits active in the state. I think drilling down to consider only of age (21 on MO unless on active mil duty, then 18 for CCW) would be better, as we can discount all under age kiddos.

Found the updated pop data for 2011, MO pop is ~ 6010628, 6.4% are under 18, so that’s really 5,265,948 “adults”, so the new adult concealed carry rate is as high as 2847 per 100k adults in MO.

Good deal!

Go to your states webpages and see if they post total numbers- would be nice to get all “57” states data in and do it up right...

I’d be glad to compile all the data and come up with a most accurate picture of CCW rates in the US.

Our Florida CCW is sought-after by many nonresidents as it has wide reciprocity - in fact, when I used to live in NY, the local gun store had Florida + Utah CCW classes to obtain licensure recognized in most other states.

So as it looks like this list isn’t 1 million resident permits, but just 1 million permits, the per 100,000 may be closer to Colorado’s.

For them, $100 or so isn’t much. They all did it to celebrate turning 21, that and being able to buy alcohol. I don’t think any of them would ever actually carry. The only time they ever held a weapon was during the class.

The problem isn’t in the planning. It is in the motivation. Why get together? Who are we going to fight? The government? The liberal next door? College professors? At this point in time, we are still comfortable. We have our full bellies, full gas tanks, 24/7 power and water, electronics out the wazoo, a church on every corner, etc.

If we band together in 1990’s style militia, the government will just infiltrate them with informants, so staying disorganized is best. When we’ve lost enough comforts, we might band together and fight, but we still don’t know who to fight.

I believe that the American people would be very content with slavery as long as the lights and water stays on, cable TV and internet porn and gaming keeps working, we keep on getting new electronics every few years, and the restaurants stay open. These people will send their kids to bureaucrats for indoctination, they’ll surrender most of the guns and bury the rest, and they’ll accept high taxes in exchange for free stuff.

Of course, at some point, we’ll have all that...and then our Chinese masters will move the factories over here so we can produce cheap junk for their consumer class. And by then, it will be too late.

This is one of 2 reasons I don’t have a CCW permit anymore. 1 - I can’t carry where I work, 2 - it’s just 1 less govt database to be in. I’m thankful Virginia has decent open-carry and carry loaded in a vehicle laws. I’m hoping for CC without permit.

...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

I hope we/they do too. Selfishly, I'm happy I have a resident VA CCW permit because it reciprocates in NC, where I'm stationed.

The sheriff is responsible for issuing permits in this hellhole of a county and while the base never previously required a "command letter" a non-problem was made a problem. Two other nearby counties never made an issue of it, but supposedly in the recent past have followed suit.

Thats when, then-Maj. Gen. Robert C. Dickerson Jr., signed a Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune order to satisfy Onslow County and state requirements. This allowed service members the opportunity to obtain a pistol and CCW permit

I’m not active so I don’t know about that. I do know that I can’t bring my firearms with me to work and go to the range on the way home, by order of some all the base commanders here. I’m lucky though, in that my wife works on the way to the range, so if I’m leaving early to go shoot, I just put them in her car in the morning and pick them up on the way to the range.

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